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Midlife Julie Cadwallader-Staub This is as far as the light of my understanding has carried me: an October morning a canoe built by hand a quiet current above me the trees arc green and golden against a cloudy sky below me the river responds with perfect reflection a hundred feet deep a hundred feet high. … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 10/24/2016 – and still say yes

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Joy Julie Cadwallader-Staub Who could need more proof than honey— How the bees with such skill and purpose enter flower after flower sing their way home to create and cap the new honey just to get through the flowerless winter. And how the bear with intention and cunning raids the hive shovels pawful after pawful … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 06/10/2014 – Joy

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Longing Julie Cadwallader-Staub Consider the blackpoll warbler. She tips the scales at one ounce before she migrates, taking off from the seacoast to our east flying higher and higher ascending two or three miles during her eighty hours of flight until she lands, in Tobago, north of Venezuela three days older, and weighing half as … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 11/21/2013 – Longing